"Our Conrad" is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and
its crucial role in the formation of American modernism. Although
Conrad did not visit the country until a year before his death, his
fiction served as both foil and mirror to America's conception of
itself and its place in the world.
Peter Mallios reveals the historical and political factors that
made Conrad's work valuable to a range of prominent
figures--including Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Richard Wright, Woodrow
Wilson, and Theodore and Edith Roosevelt--and explores regional
differences in Conrad's reception. He proves that foreign-authored
writing can be as integral a part of United States culture as that
of any native. Arguing that an individual writer's apparent
(national, gendered, racial, political) identity is not always a
good predictor of the diversity of voices and dialogues to which he
gives rise, this exercise in transnational comparativism
participates in post-Americanist efforts to render American Studies
less insular and parochial.
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